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The Best CD case insert… ever.

The CD insert is actually a circuit board that lists all the tracks and artist information – cool enough, but there’s more. This circuit board has a headphone jack on it and a light sensor, and it acts as a fully-functioning theremin!

To work it, you press a button with one hand, and wave your other hand in front of the light sense. It’s expensive ($50), but he also has a mini-edition for significantly less.

“Moldover’s new CD, over 3 years in the making, not only delivers gorgeously diverse music with meaning and musical mastery, it completely redefines what it means to “play an album”… Moldover’s CD packaging itself IS a new musical instrument! The CD is mounted on a custom designed circuit board, intricately patterned and powering a “light-Theremin”. Yes! You play the artwork and it makes sound! Only the musical supervillain genius of Moldover could develop something so stunningly innovative.”

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I love a good gimmick. Ordered my copy last night. I have no idea what the music is like but it’s a fabulous collector’s item regardless. One could build up a cabinet of such curiosities like a Victorian eccentric!

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